mgetty

Marc SCHAEFER (schaefer@alphanet.ch)
7 Jul 1999 1907:53:05 +0200


Brooks Roy <broy@southfayette.org> wrote:
> the LINUX howto for it.. My modem is com3 and is 14.4 I cannot get it to

first, can you access that modem with a terminal program ?  What
do you mean by ``com3'' ?

   - what interrupt (IRQ) ?
   - what port address ?

If you don't know, report dmesg | grep tty

> pickup when someone dials in.. I think there needs to be a line in my
> /etc/inittab (redhat 6.0 distro).  I dont know..

Yes, something like:

   s2:123:respawn:/usr/lib/mgetty/mgetty ttyS2

Do not copy this blindly. Please read the documentation.